TANJORE. 
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CHAPTER V. 
TANJORE. TONDY. RAMISERAM. 
Leaving Tritchengur, we retraced our steps to 
Trichinopoly, thence to Tanjore, and from the latter 
place proceeded to Ramiseram, whence we proposed, 
after visiting the celebrated waterfall at Puppanassum, 
crossing over to the island of Ceylon. After advancing 
a few miles from Tanjore, we found the aspect of the 
country to change considerably. It had now very 
much the appearance of an English landscape, and 
consequently gave rise to many agreeable associations. 
This peculiarity seemed to increase as we approached 
Pettacotta, but did not exist beyond it. Here date- 
trees are very numerous and large. The road led 
through beautiful vistas, well cultivated on either 
side, giving us the idea of a happy population who 
had plenty and fruitfulness around them. The num- 
ber of choultries in this neighbourhood shows at once 
the care which has been taken for the accommodation 
of the traveller and of the devotee ; and a very excellent 
accommodation they afford. These buildings are con- 
sidered an incontestable evidence of the sanctity of 
the neighbourhood in which they are erected, as they 
are more especially built to shelter the numerous 
pilgrims who may happen to be on their way to some 
